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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Providing satisfaction or gratification.
  • adjective Affording profit; remunerative.

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  • adjective Giving reward or satisfaction.
  • verb Present participle of reward.

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  • adjective providing personal satisfaction

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Examples

  • The Bush administration is absolutely opposed to what they call rewarding bad behavior.

    CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2006 2006

  • How one Iowa National Guardsman survived his wounds from Iraq and returned to home to what he called a rewarding lesson.

    CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2004 2004

  • You might call it rewarding people who voted for Obama, but I would call it rewarding the people who have financed the welfare states of Red State America!

    Matthew Yglesias » State by State 2009

  • I am a black republican, grant it, I don't agree with all my parties lines, but I do feel like they believe in rewarding for those that want to achieve.

    Politics vs. Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Take for example, republicans hate giving money to the poor who do pay taxes and they love opening up their pocketbooks to the rich in rewarding them with tax breaks.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 16, 2010 2010

  • The most rewarding is when I get clients coming back to me every time they move, three and four times!

    Brilliant Idea for a Pillow Designer 2010

  • You might call it rewarding people who voted for Obama, but I would call it rewarding the people who have financed the welfare states that exists in Red State

    Matthew Yglesias » Zero 2009

  • What I find the most rewarding is playing around with the ideas of science fiction and fantasy, as well as storytelling, and peopling my worlds with odd characters to show the absurdity of life.

    Karen Magon 's Birthday!! marshallpayne1 2009

  • Ultimately, you have to decide if the amount of time spent doing something repetitive and not so rewarding is worth the credit and collaboration, and whether you could obtain the same amount of credit/collaboration with new activities you currently don't have time for due to mango slicing.

    To Hire or Not to Hire Candid Engineer 2009

  • This nation do not believe in rewarding misbehavior.

    Clinton lawyer makes Florida, Michigan case 2008

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